GAME RECAP: Penguins at Kings () | California Dreamin’

Entering tonight, the Penguins were looking for the franchise’s second all-time perfect California road trip. Sidney Crosby’s wraparound backhand midway through the opening period got things started. Crosby is now on a seven-game point streak (4G-5A). Grundstrom answered back with a shorthanded goal later in the period. The 2nd period saw the Kings take their first lead of the night off a tally from Kempe. Lars Eller restored the tie with a shorthanded marker of his own, poking the puck off an LA stick in the neutral zone, making a nice move, and then wiring the puck top shelf. With the game tied, 2-2, entering the 3rd period, Jake Guentzel earned his fifth of the season, completing a beautiful sequence from Karlsson, to Crosby, and then to Guentzel. Fiala knotted things up again for the Kings, and this game was destined for overtime. After Bryan Rust’s first “goal” was deemed offside, the same trio of Erik Karlsson, Evgeni Malkin, and Rust went to work. A drop pass from Malkin led to Rust putting a wraparoun